a punishment used by white people when a child misbehaves, in which the child is temporarily forced to remain silent in a single spot. This method is usually ineffective, as opposed to the method used by black people who simply beat the child.

An action taken by one friend towards another after being provoked past that individual's threshold or tolerance for annoyance, disagreement, or disrespect towards him/her. An Italian often has a much lower than normal tolerance for aggravation, and will prompt a "time out" by saying "Are you f---ing serious right now bro'?" or "How you gonna come off like that to me?". He will then place the friend (sometimes ex-friend) on "time out" for an indefinite time period, not talking, calling, nor returning phone calls. In extreme cases, the melancholy time-out-ee will try anything to get back together with his/her friend. The exchange of online, often sentimental, greeting cards are a popular option.

Jason had had enough... he pulled up next to Manny in his Camaro exclaiming, "That's it bro'. You're on time out!"

Your asian friend gets too wasted/sauced and goes too hard/ too ham/rages out of control and does inappropriate dance moves involving handstands/bridges/grinding, annoys DJs such as Lil Cee and Beatbreaker, dances on tabletops/bars/amps/or any raised flat surface and ends the night trying to bike to the ocean going the wrong way

"Yunmi we are putting you in time out" "Yunmi go in time out" "You need to control your friend she's in time out"